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How To Harden PHP5 With Suhosin On Mandriva 2007 Spring
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: mandriva, php, security • Comments: 0How To Harden PHP5 With Suhosin On Mandriva 2007 Spring This tutorial shows how to harden PHP5 with Suhosin on a Mandriva 2007 Spring server. From the Suhosin project page: "Suhosin is an advanced protection system for PHP installations that was designed to protect servers and users from known and unknown flaws in PHP applications and the PHP core. Suhosin comes in two independent parts, that can be used separately or in combination. The first part is a small patch against the PHP core, that implements a few low-level protections against buffer overflows or format string vulnerabilities and the second part is a powerful PHP extension that implements all the other protections."
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Dual-Booting Windows XP/Vista And Ubuntu 7.04
Author: Cargoship • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 16Dual-Booting Windows XP/Vista And Ubuntu 7.04 In this tutorial I will teach you how to dual-boot between Windows XP/Vista and Ubuntu. This tutorial will be split up into two parts: Part one for people who have no operating system installed. Part two for people who have Windows XP/Vista installed and do not want to re-install Windows.
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Set Up OpenLDAP On Fedora 7
Author: pinguingilo • Tags: fedora • Comments: 9Set Up OpenLdap On Fedora 7 This document describes how to set up OpenLDAP on Fedora 7. OpenLDAP is a directory server based on the LDAP protocol, that same protocol MS Active Directory is based on. OpenLDAP is an open-source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
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Installing The PHP-MemCache Module On CentOS 5.0
Author: thim • Tags: centos, php • Comments: 5Installing The PHP-MemCache Module On CentOS 5.0 MemCached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. In this howto I explain how you can very easily install it and make it avaible in PHP.
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Installing SugarCRM OpenSource Edition On Debian 4.0 (Etch)
Author: Till Brehm • Tags: debian • Comments: 0Installing SugarCRM OpenSource Edition On Debian 4.0 (Etch) SugarCRM is a webbased CRM solution written in PHP. SugarCRM is available as an OpenSource edition and a ClosedSource version. For a detailed overview of the different editions, have a look at the SugarCRM website. In this tutorial I will describe the installation of the OpenSource edition on Debian 4.0. With the modules My Portal, Calendar, Activities, Contacts, Accounts, Leads, Opportunities, Cases, Bugtracker, Documents and Email, SugarCRM OpenSource Edition offers everything that can be expected from a CRM solution.
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Installing Zabbix (Server And Agent) On Debian Etch
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, monitoring •
Comments: 2 Installing Zabbix (Server And Agent) On Debian Etch Zabbix is a solution for monitoring applications, networks, and servers. With Zabbix, you can monitor multiple servers at a time, using a Zabbix server that comes with a web interface (that is used to configure Zabbix and holds the graphs of your systems) and Zabbix agents that are installed on the systems to be monitored. The Zabbix agents deliver the desired data to the Zabbix server. This tutorial shows how you can install the Zabbix server and agent on a Debian Etch system.
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Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 7
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: fedora, ftp • Comments: 0Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 7 This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup. Passwords will be stored encrypted as MD5 strings in the database.
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Using Compiz, Beryl, And Metisse On A Mandriva 2007 Spring Desktop
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, mandriva • Comments: 0Using Compiz, Beryl, And Metisse On A Mandriva 2007 Spring Desktop This tutorial shows how you can use Compiz, Beryl, and Metisse on a Mandriva 2007 Spring (Mandriva 2007.1) desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card). With Compiz, Beryl, and Metisse, you can make your desktop use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube (although the desktop cube isn't available on Metisse).
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Data Recovery With TestDisk
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: other, debian • Comments: 11Data Recovery With TestDisk TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software which was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting your partition table). TestDisk is available for lots of operating systems, including Linux, Windows, and MacOS, and supports lots of filesystems.
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How to Avoid Being Blacklisted
Author: alinap • Tags: antivirus, linux, security • Comments: 2How to Avoid Being Blacklisted A blacklist usually refers to a list of e-mail or IP addresses known to send spam e-mails or some other type of unsolicited messages. Such lists are currently used by mail servers for filtering incoming e-mails and blocking the ones listed, in order to improve mail security and integrity. The blacklist is also the opposite of what is called a whitelist.
